On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:03:44PM +0100, squeak-dev-request at lists.squeakfoundation.org wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 06:29:57 -0400
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> From: Mark Guzdial <guzdial at cc.gatech.edu>
> Subject: Re: Lots of concurrency
> Reply-To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> 
> "Sciences of the Artificial" is more on design than psychology. 
> "Protocol Analysis" with Ericsson is where I've heard more of the 
> evidence that the mind is single-threaded (e.g., similar to the 
> current work showing that driving and cell phone use reduces 
> attention to each), but I'd bet that "Models of Bounded Rationality" 
> has it, too.

I think it's clear that the mind as a whole works in a massively
parallel fashion, but that only a few threads at a time at most can be
"conscious," "accessible to consciousness," or whatever term you want
to use for that mental thingy that handles 7+/-2 chunks at once,
maximum.

Sources: vague memories of _The User Illusion_ by Tor Norretranders
and _Wet Mind_ by Kosslyn & Koenig.

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